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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH, 1918
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CELEBRITY RECORDS BY ARTISTS WHO ARE MAKING MUSICAL HISTORY AND WHO STAND AT THE VERY PINNACLE IN THE OPERATIC AND CONCERT FIELDS ARE THE DOMINATING FEATURE OF THE SHIPMENT
JUST RECEIVED BY US, THE BEST
EVER RECEIVED IN THE COLONY.
VOCAL.
GRAND "OPERAS.
I PAGLIACCI (Leonesvallo) Prologue
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Do
do.
Vesti la giubbs
.. Riccardo Stracciari, Baritone. ...Nino Piccaluga, Tenor.
(On with the Play)
Do.
20.
O. Colombian
...G. Zenstello, Tenor.
(Harlequin's Sareonde) ·
BARBER OF SEVILLE. (Rossini). Numero Quindici
Do.
(Number Fifteen)...A. Bonci (Tenor) and Ferruccio
Corradetti (Baritone).
Voi dovresti travestirvin
(You must disguise yourself)
TANNHAUSER (Wagner) Okta bell'astro
(The Evening Star)
I VESPRI SICILIANI Aria de Montforti
(Montford's Aria)
LUCIA DE LAMMERMOQR (Donizetti Ta che a
Dot
...Pasquale Amato, Baritona..
...Riccardo Stracciari, Baritone.
Dio, Apiegati Fali.Alfred Picsaver, Tenor. (Thon hast spread thy wings)
TOSCA E luceran le stelle (The stars were shining). Nino Piccaluga, Tonor.
MEFISTOFELE (Boite) Son lo spirito
| NICOLETTO (Verdi) La donna e mobilé
Adamo Dídür, Bass.
..........C. Laori-Volpi, Tenor..
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CABLES.
LATEST CABLES. ("LONZOV 9,HULANH HOAQULLI].
BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.
Losnos, September 11th.
- The Board of Trade returns for August shows imports, 288,743,000: British ex- ports £80,103,000; increases of £11,025.000 and Ko0,000 respectively compared with
July,
RAW RUBBER PRICES. »
FALL DUE TO DELIVERY OF
DELAYED STOCKS.
LONDON, September 11th The fall in the price of ruw rubber to
THE SOLAR ECLIPSE. BEST PHOTOGRAPHS OBTAINED
1
IN CALIFORNIA.
New Tops, September 11th, The best photographs of the sun's eclipse taken in Southern California are believed to have been obtained by the expedition to Santa Barbara, headed by the Londoner, Mr. Worthing, and the Hastonite Mr. Burton. The weather was favourable | Mr. Worthington states that he'sreured four almost perfect negatives, which hờ believes will rank as the best ever taken of a solar eclipse.
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SUMMER TIME AT HOME,
ENDS ON SEPTEMBER 16TH.
Lospos. September' tith. Summertime cesses at three o'clock in
15; pence per «poind is attributed by the morning of September 18th.
The Times to an increase in the stocks
held in London' to 48,801 tons, compared with 47,500 tons held a fortnight ago, the result of delivery of rubber, which was held up by the dock strike.
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» EASTERN TELEGRAPH CO
DIVIDENDS.
LONDON. September 11th.
HARRISONS AND OROSFIELD DIVIDEND.
LONDON, September 11th. Messrs. Harrisons and Crosfield an nounce a dividend on the cumulative pre- ference shares at the rate of six per cent. per annum for the three months ending September 30th., less tax.
CONTROL.
The 'Eastern Telegraph Co. have de; | MAILS SHOT THROUGH AIR. elared a dividend at the rate of 34 per COMING MARVELS OF WIRELESS cent less tax, on preference stock for the quarter ending September 30th! The second quarterly interim dividend is
per cent on ordinary stock, tax free.
THE ST. LEGER- WON BY TRANQUIL
LONDON, September 11th. Following are the results of the St. Leger.
Tranquil
Papyrus. Teresing.......i
Thirteen horses ran. 138rcs.
#Starting prices were: Tranquil 100 to |9; Papyrus. 15 to 8: Teresina, 100 to 7.
The coming wonders of the air unit," a correspondent of a Landon paper writes "engaged the attention of the world's ex- Iperts who attended the Congress recently held in London. General Williamson, our Director of Mails at the G. P. O, and a keen student of superrapid dispatch by mail-conthes that fly, read a paper which brought all post-war progress within a clear focus. But what has been doue already palos to insignificance compared with what we are about to do. A world growing amazingly smaller! That is what our international experts visualise from the postal point of view,
"
NIGHT-FLYING IN THE FUTURE,
"Organised night-flying, as soon as we have it on a European, and then ny" world wide basis, will transform the whole Time: 2mins, aspect of the carriage of mails by air. Here, for example, is one fascinating prep into the future. Vast, automatically stable ships of the air, with their captains con trolling them, from a bridge with engine telegraphs like those of a sea ship, will stand ready each evening in London to rush upward and outward across Europo, with urgent business mails. It will be a new era in time-gawing for the commercial work."
EARLIER CABLES. Lognos, Sptember 11th.
St. Leger probables alterations are: Parth_(O'Neill) and Soldumeno (Wing). Old Nio (Lage) Colossus (McLachlan), Polperro has been scratched,
THE RUHR.
"GERMANY'S DEFEAT AN
ACCOMPLISHED FACT""
BERLIN, September 11th.
were killed
TO ITALY IN A NIGHT.
im-
Take, just as an instance, the case of the Italian mail. Something like a copule of tons, in one night's dispatch, the portant nail will be stowed within the cupacions hull of a winged, all-metal mail- carrier. And then that leviathan rising and disappearing into the night will make its uneecked flight across Europe travel- ling with such endurance and at such speed that the mails it carriers will be delivered in Italy, next morning. Weird indeed is the machine seen developing now as a per- fected air-carrier of mails. It is a hollow tube of metal shaped and stream lined like jeet on either side. In its nose is and "some mouster shell. Tiny metal wings pro
automatic engine of immense power. It has no pilot, no human control of any kind on board. Its ascent and descent. Informal discussions are proceeding be and its guidance altitudes, will be accom- plished entirely by a specialised system of tween Berlin and Paris in order to ascer-wireless control. tain, what prospects there might be. of opening definite negotiations. The visits of the French Ambassador to the German Chancellor at the Foreign Office
are us doubtedly closely connected with politica! reconnaitring.
It is reported that six rin and ten wounded in a collision between the police and unemployed outside Dresden town hall,
BERLIN September 11th Germany's defeat in the Ruhr is con- sidered an accomplished fact. Overtures from Berlin are expected at an early dato," The latest turn of events is responsible for today's rise in the Irane by two points, -
GERMAN CURRENCY CRISIS,
THE LATEST MOVE
BERLIN, September 11th. The latest move in the currency crisis ju contained in an aunouncement that the Currency Controller requisitions forthwith all precious metals, the pussessors of which HOSHIGAUEA. —Finest Seasics Bummer Holiday Resort in North China. Five miles must declare their stocks before the 21st, from Dairan, bat connected with the city by special motor and ceriage road and electio instant. The Controller is also severely framway, Yamata Hotel (35 rooms) and 19 furnished bungalows in charming cliff garden. Bathing, Boating, Fishing, Golf, Tennis, Billiards, Orchestra twice a week. Capital place | limiting the scope of operations of institu- for children. OGONDAL Most beautiful and select Seaside Resort in the Far East. Two milesfrom Portions dealing in foreign exchange.
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
EXPENDITURE TO BE REDUCED,
GENEVA, September 11th. British and other critics of the Leaguo of Nations expenditure will be interested to learn from Secretary General Druin- mond's statement to the budget committee
ing
that the expenses of the Secretariat
aro ho reduce thirteen per
compared with the past year, and the grueral expen- diture of the International Labour Offic eighteen per cent, Mr. Drummond declared. that further reductions wore impossible.
SHOT ACROSS THE OCEAN.
aerial torpedoes, will be shot at enormous Super-express mails, packed in these
speed above continents, seas and oceans. Such machines. Bashing like projectiles through the low-resistance of the upper air may carry a letter between London and Paris is an hour! They may eventually astonishing though the prospect seem enable us to post a letter in the evening here in London, and have it delivered next morning, on the other, side of the ocean, in New York!"
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